[ale] Hey, deb-heads!

[David Bronson]

BTW,

If you feel compelled to use the cd's, a tool you can use is apt-cdrom.

<man page snippage>
SYNOPSIS
       apt-cdrom  [  -hvrmfan  ]   [  -d=cdrom  mount  point ]  [
       -o=config string ]  [ -c=file ]   [ add ]  [ ident ]

DESCRIPTION
       apt-cdrom is used to add a  new  CDROM  to  APTs  list  of
       available sources. apt-cdrom takes care of determining the
       structure of the disc as well as  correcting  for  several
       possible mis-burns and verifying the index files.

       It  is  necessary  to  use apt-cdrom to add CDs to the APT
       system, it cannot be done by hand. Furthermore  each  disk
       in  a multi-cd set must be inserted and scanned separately
       to account for possible mis-burns.

       Unless the -h, or --help option is given one of  the  com­
       mands below must be present.

       add    add  is  used to add a new disc to the source list.
              It will unmount the CDROM device, prompt for a disk
              to  be  inserted  and  then procceed to scan it and
              copy the index files. If the disc does not  have  a
              proper  .disk/ directory you will be prompted for a
              descriptive title.

              APT uses a CDROM ID to track  which  disc  is  cur­
              rently  in  the  drive  and maintains a database of
              these IDs in /var/lib/apt/cdroms.list

       ident  A debugging tool to report the identity of the cur­
              rent disc as well as the stored file name
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DB

On Monday 01 July 2002 10:43 pm, you wrote:
> I've downloaded the three Debian Potato CD ISOs to my file server and
> I'm going to try to do an install using the contents of those ISOs as
> the source via FTP.
>
> My question is, how do I combine the contents of the CDs in my FTP
> filespace so as to make the whole schmeer resemble the Debian mirrors on
> the Internet?  I'm used to doing this in Red-Hat-land but the layout
> here is quite different.
>
> - Jeff
>
>
>
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